I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Quotes from Polite Conversation — Jonathan Swift
1667–1745 Ireland
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She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Polite Conversation (1738)
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
Polite Conversation (1738)
What religion is he of?
Why, he is an Anythingarian.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Polite Conversation (1738)
She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.
Polite Conversation (1738)
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Polite Conversation (1738)
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Polite Conversation (1738)
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade".
Polite Conversation (1738)
She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
Polite Conversation (1738)
She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
Polite Conversation (1738)
'T is happy for him that his father was before him.
Polite Conversation (1738)
She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.
Polite Conversation (1738)
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
Polite Conversation (1738)
There is none so blind as they that won't see.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Polite Conversation (1738)
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
Polite Conversation (1738)
If it had been a bear it would have bit you.
Polite Conversation (1738)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Swift (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.